How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brand names all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all web space hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you getting confused? We categorically are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Problem Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain manipulation options

Do we need to point out the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP departments to grasp... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting distributors:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...